BRIEF: Westmoreland Coal's losses grow

Posted on: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:43:00 EST


Symbols: WLB
Nov 09, 2009 (The Gazette - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
WLB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Westmoreland Coal Co.'s losses more than tripled during the third quarter from a year earlier as a result of unexpected outages at power plants owned by two of its largest customers, combined with a planned outage at its North Carolina power plant.

The Colorado Springs-based energy company reported its losses for the quarter jumped to $12.4 million, or $1.21 a share, from $3.49 million, or 37 cents a share, in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue fell 20.5 percent to $112.4 million during the same period. For the first nine months of the year, the company cut its losses a fifth to $26.4 million, or $2.68 a share, from $33.2 million, or $3.50 a share, a year ago despite a 12.3 percent drop in revenue to $339 million.

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